In a nutshell New independent research confirms that 23,000-year-old human footprints at White Sands National Park are authentic, proving people lived in North America during the peak ice age. The ...

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have ...

Jared Wildenradt has hiked the Ice AgeTrail nine times. Lisa Siewert is mapping the geologic highlights of the path. They ...

Lake Agassiz no longer exists, however, it was one of the largest lakes in North America during the last ice age at an estimated size of around 170,000 square miles. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) ...

With a waterfall twice the height of Niagara, the longest remote hiking trail in North America, and a population of just ...

New research reveals that groundwater levels responded differently in the US Southwestern and Pacific Northwest regions ...

Analysis - The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today's world.

The age of the footprints has been a contentious issue. Asked how the new findings align with the previous ones, University of Arizona archaeologist and geologist Vance Holliday, the study leader ...

Knysna Eastern Heads site. Sara Watson, Author provided (no reuse) The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world.

The footprints, whose discovery was announced in 2021, indicate that humans trod the landscape of North America thousands of years earlier than previously thought, during the most inhospitable ...